Table 10.
Summary of capabilities of commercial and internally developed systems by category
| Decision support capabilities | Vendor | % Content available | Internally developed | % Content available | Overall % available | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Medication dosing support (7 features) | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 85.7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 71.4 | 80.5 |
| Order facilitators (9 features) | 9 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 79.4 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 86.1 | 81.8 |
| Point-of-care alerts/reminders (14 features) | 14 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 63.2 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 64.2 | 65.6 |
| Relevant information display (5 features) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 62.9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 65.0 | 63.6 |
| Expert systems (11 features) | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 36.3 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 47.7 | 41.3 |
| Workflow support (7 features) | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 65.3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 75.0 | 68.8 |
| Grand totals | ||||||||||||||
| % Features available | 92.5 | 60.4 | 56.6 | 52.8 | 94.3 | 66.0 | 28.3 | 64.4 | 96.2 | 58.5 | 54.7 | 60.4 | 67.4 | 65.5 |